Hello guys, I just started my electronic engineering course at uni and was looking into different things I can do. I kind of got interested in career in semiconductors or robotics fields. I was wondering if it is realistic to start practicing with FPGA boards as first year, since a lot of people that I see in this community started FPGA boards as 3rd year cs students or engineering postgraduates. Also, could you give me some project ideas I could use for the uni fund application. Appreciate all the input, including personal stories, resources, advice etc. :)

I'm working on a medical device safety controller on an Artix-7. Nothing too complicated, but the development process is mostly new to me.

One of the real joys I've found is seeing the vast number of warnings that Vivado dumps out. Almost all of them seem meaningless, but as this is a medical device, I want to do my due diligence to make sure I review them as best I can. I'd also like to leave a note, initials, and date on each one as I check them off. This last bit doesn't seem to be well supported.

I've been using Claude to help me through this, and it came up with a python script that I can run after synthesis and implementation. It parses runme.log and generates a csv file where I can add all this information. If I rerun systhesis and implementation and then this script, it will check for changes and mark warnings as new, reviewed, or not seen. It also created a separate tcl script to suppress some of the spamier messages that come from Vivado IP blocks. There are some other bells and whistles too.

My question is this: Is this a good process or an AI fever dream? How do other people approach this problem?

So I have found a Xilinx Spartan 3e starter kit board on sale for 25 euros, I currently have a tang nano 9k. Is it worth it? Is supported by some toolchain or is a museum piece?

Has anyone gotten an oa or heard back from Nvidia hardware intern roles? I applied and recently my application changed from “application submitted” to “in review “

If anyone has one collecting dust in their lab or office and is willing to part with it, please let me know your asking price and its current condition.

Please send me a PM with photos of the board if you have one available.
Thanks in advance!

Hello,

I am designing a programmable cartridge for MVS. I have selected the memories and microcontrollers, and I would like to include an FPGA per board in order to do the decoding, therefore, I am not in need of a very dense FPGA with lots of LUTs, but cheap, affordable and easy to work components. Programmation would be done through the microcontrollers, which would also be in charge of programming the memories.

Please, could you recommend a family or line with such characteristics?

Thank you very much in advance!